When Friends would be Lovers

| July 18, 2011

This post is in response to an email sent by a reader around July 5th… To “Jenn” regarding “John”: Hi Jenn, Let me make sure I understand. You heard John say he had a former crush on someone from a long time ago? Or is this a recent crush? The good thing to come of [...]

Primer for Handling a Declaration of Unrequited Love

| July 30, 2010

The perspectives of the Loved Ones are discussed and will continue to be discussed in various posts on this blog, but this post in particular is intended to be the more matter-of-fact, “How to Handle a Declaration of Unrequited Love, For Dummies” version. First, you need to decide (and this shouldn’t be difficult) whether the [...]

Like or Love?

| May 12, 2010

Are you in love or in like? Is there a difference between friendship and love? Social science research says, yes, there is a difference. The “Like or Love Survey” link-button below will open a survey on this page that may help you decide if what you feel for a particular person is more similar to [...]

“I Love You” — “What?!”

| March 30, 2010

So, someone has declared their undying love for you.  And you don’t feel the same.  How uncomfortable!  Someone saying they are in love with you when you don’t love them in return is an experience most of us wish we would never have.  However, the truth is that it is actually an experience that most [...]

How to Get Over Unrequited Love

| March 16, 2009

Unfortunately, there’s not really a check-list answer to this question, but I’ll try to offer one, anyway. Understand the following is over-simplified and over-generalized. Wait it out. Passage of time is probably the single most important component.  The amount of time varies from person to person but if it’s really unrequited love, it will take [...]

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